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To begin with, Apologies for Absence We planned to have this piece ready weeks ago, In January we put in a request to the Electoral Commission asking when the 2019 Electoral datasets were being published and they advised March. It didn’t happen, so another request last week got the reply, “hopefully by the end of this month”. While all this was going on, along came Covid 19, and, as

Why do we Brits keep handing over the Keys of the Nation to people who are totally unqualified to hold them? We all joke about the Old School Tie, and make fun of it but time and time again we vote for a lazy overprivilged bunch of public schoolboys. The persons currently running the UK would find it hard to scrape up a decent Degree on a relevant subject between

This is one of the key reasons we started the Dangerous Globe back in 2016, was to share stuff from around the world and give everyone a chance to read things not normally written in English. Below is a translation of a translation, the original is an Italian lady with a lovely mind, Irene Velle, and her story/poem was translated into Dutch by Susan Blanco We took it a stage

This is the third part in a series about the rigging of the 2019 December UK general election where we focus on the role of the British press in delivering the extreme right wing governments of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, and the United States. Note :-I planned put a small personal story here to illustrate the root cause of my anger but my editor said I was “rambling off topic

The BBC Purpose and Mission statement is crystal clear:- (With thanks to @poetinpyjama who did a great deal of the work that made this possible) Our mission is "to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which Inform, educate and entertain". I watched hundreds of hours of BBC News programming over the last 3 years connecting the News coverage

February 29, 2020 (A true Leap in the Dark day) Tony Broomfield (With thanks to @poetinpyjama who did a great deal of the work that made this possible) Introduction The first piece of a 5 part mystery thriller about the theft of British Democracy and the rigging of UK Elections and Referenda. Rather than an opinion piece, it is an evidence locker, and seeks to present enough material to support

Mental Health in 21st Century UK Male suicide in the UK is a cause of concern for us all, Statistics suggest that 5,821 people ended their lives in 2018, with men accounting for three quarters of the countries suicides. It is estimated that 75% of people suffering with a mental health illness do not get access to the treatment they need. More worryingly it is claimed that 200 people per

It has now been a week since Brexit. A week for sovereignty to be regained, a week to send out the 50p’s, and a week for the United Kingdom to remain afloat. From Boris Johnson’s majority government, to estimating what the future holds. Alternatively, the past week has meant that the media’s concentration on Brexit has allowed the ever growing inequality within the United Kingdom to be overlooked once again.

Sunday 05 January 2020 I revisited this article a couple of days ago to check a couple of things and it struck me as being rather difficult to read, which may explain the poor number of responses to it. I have cleaned it up a bit in the hope it may be a bit easier now…and carry a bit more weight in the light of what has happened to UK

NB: If you are already registered, you can still vote by proxy until December 4th. (Please ignore the time and dates below, you are too late). !!! If all you take from this blog is to register to vote - you have until the 26 November and can register at home AND University. There are links at the bottom for more information !!! Parliament has been dissolved and we now